2017 // I love you, Ines

– 2017 | 14’ 29’’ | stereo | DCP, 1920 x 1080

A melodramatic situation about the impossibility of relationships made in a TV studio and using the language and specific conditions of TV production for soaps, dramas or telenovelas – productions seen as low cultural forms – provides the outline for the plot and dramaturgy of this film.
The space of the shoot – a virtual studio, a minimal TV green screen studio, and the space of the action – a living room generated in 3D, allow the cinematic space to be treated with methods closer to editing procedures in film or text – for the material to be arranged, rearranged, looped, repeated, erased, deconstructed according to the demands of the performance or movements of the protagonist or text.
Through a number of narrative repetitions the protagonists search for a compromise in a futile attempt to establish a dialogue. Instead what occurs is speech without listening, there is no resolution, but a series of stubborn and persistent attempts which all lead back to the beginning.
N. Tanhofer’s theory of the shared lighting is used as the basis of the conflict and the instructions for the performance.